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Another day, another clamorous data breach, this time let’s discuss a data breach that exposes personaldata collected by the Keyboard App AI.type.

This story reminds us that every time we download an app we are enlarging our surface of attack, in the majority of cases we are not aware of exact amount of data they collect and how they use them

A group of researchers at the Kromtech Security Center hasdiscoveredonline a huge trove of personal data belonging to more than 31 million users of the popular virtual keyboard app, AI.type.

The data was included in a MongoDB database that has been accidentally exposed online without any mechanism ofprotection.

“The Kromtech Security Center has discovered a massive amount of customer files leaked online and publically available. Researchers were able to access the data and details of 31,293,959 users.” states the post published by Kromtech Security.